Longwy Casemates

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description

brève description: 

In the 17th century, Louis XIV had the medieval upper part of the town (the former Longwy-Haut) destroyed in order to rebuild in its place a new town structure which was to serve as a defensive link on the North-East front. Based on a hexagonal layout, Longwy was built by the Marquis de Vauban, foremost military architect of his time, as the ideal Baroque fortified city: church, arsenal, barracks, fountains, houses grouped around a square, and the whole surrounded by a massive star-shaped defensive wall with six bastions. A monumental main gate (the so-called French Gate) and four of the six bastions have been preserved to this day. Two bastions contain munitions and powder depots, the other two house the cruciform casemates whose noteworthy building shape is exceptional in Vaubans oeuvre.

pertinent pour un tournage

usage : 
tourism and leisure
condition générale : 
good general condition
intérieur: 
one room, unfurnished
situation sonore : 
noise nuisances
alentours: 
park / town / forest (with ropes course)
ascenseur : 
n/a
éléments perturbateurs : 
visual: situated in the centre of town (rather quiet)

accès

transports en commun : 
the train station is 10 minutes away

approvisionnement

sanitaires : 
n/a
parking : 
open, grassy terrain in front of the casemates
électricité : 
single-phased
eau: 
n/a

contact

Marie-Alix Fourquenay